Gaura Priya
IRL
God to me, is in everything and beyond everything. Ey can be our friend, lover, child, parent, servant, or master. God is in the trees, in the grass, in every act of love and kindness. Even in acts of intimacy, or in spouts of anger, is God there. There is no place where God is not.
Sri Shadbhuja Mahaprabhu is one way for me in seeing Divine Presence. It shows Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu with his staff of renunciation and his pot, Lord Ramachandra with his bow and arrow, and then ultimately Lord Krishna, who is considered in the Vaishnava religion as God Himself, purnavatara and avatari. This image is only a manufactured idea of the infinitude of God, and a form of the infinitude of forms that Ey may take.
To bring Lord Vishnu, the Most Intimate and Most Ultimate, to the finite conceptions of our limited minds, would be very much to lose the awe and magnitude of Eir magnificence and grandeur.
Srila Sridhar Maharaj, one of my shiksha gurus who I take inspiration from, translates in his Srimad Bhagavad-gita: The Hidden Treasure of the Sweet Absolute (10:41),
Sri Shadbhuja Mahaprabhu is one way for me in seeing Divine Presence. It shows Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu with his staff of renunciation and his pot, Lord Ramachandra with his bow and arrow, and then ultimately Lord Krishna, who is considered in the Vaishnava religion as God Himself, purnavatara and avatari. This image is only a manufactured idea of the infinitude of God, and a form of the infinitude of forms that Ey may take.
To bring Lord Vishnu, the Most Intimate and Most Ultimate, to the finite conceptions of our limited minds, would be very much to lose the awe and magnitude of Eir magnificence and grandeur.
Srila Sridhar Maharaj, one of my shiksha gurus who I take inspiration from, translates in his Srimad Bhagavad-gita: The Hidden Treasure of the Sweet Absolute (10:41),
"Know for certain that whatever is
sublime,
beautiful,
and
magnificent,
is born from a mere fraction of My potency."
Jaya Sri Narayana!
sublime,
beautiful,
and
magnificent,
is born from a mere fraction of My potency."
Jaya Sri Narayana!